What is a VIKON Chicken?
Vikon
chickens are producced from Heritage chickens. Vikon chickens' parent
are breed from Heritage chickens. About 60 years ago an overseas poultry
breeder purchased two pure line breeds from two New England breeders and
took the lines back to his country. The mother’s side of the VIKON
chicken is a Cornish pure line that had originally started in Cornwall,
England and was admitted to the American Poultry Association’s “Standard
of Perfection” in 1893. The Standard is the official poultry bible
that recognizes pure breeds. A pure breed means once the bird has been officially
selected as a pure breed it is never mated with a different breed of chickens
if it is to remain a pure line. The Cornish is a close genetic link to it’s
ancient jungle fowl ancestor. VIKON chickens father side is a pure line
Plymouth White Rock breed. This White Rock breed was admitted as a pure
breed to the Standard in 1888.
VIKON Chikens are different because the overseas breeder uses selection
methods that preserve the bird’s true natural traits. This sets the
Vikon Chickens program apart from any other breeding system used in the
world today. The Vikon Chickens production is a commitment and respect
for nature to preserve his chickens inherited genetic attributes. This
Vikon Chicken breeder did not want another fast growing white-feathered
chicken that had to be kept in a special man-made environment. Instead
he has worked to maintain the natural traditional chicken with all its
inherited strengths, including the slow growing, disease resistance, excellent
livability and its adaptation to tough environmental conditions. But even
more important for our customers, the VIKON chickens has tasty meat with
low fat and low cholesterol levels and low retained water.
VIKON chickens' on-going breeding work is done by Kabir International
Ltd. And now, after sixty years, these two heritage pure line breeds have
been brought back to the USA and are the parents of our VIKON. These two
lines are unique for the fact that never once, during over 100 years,
ever since admitted to the Standard of Poultry Perfection, has either
line been changed by any genetic modification or by crossing onto any
other breeds.
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